Richard Socher

Richard Socher is a founder, investor, and researcher in artificial intelligence. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of You.com, the #1 AI search infrastructure for enterprises.

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He’s also the co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures, where he’s backed multiple AI unicorns from an early stage. Richard is one of the world’s leading AI researchers and the 5th most-cited in all of natural language processing, with over 230,000 citations.

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He previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce after the company acquired his first AI company, MetaMind, in 2016. Richard holds a PhD from Stanford and also served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department. 

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